READ : How We Normally Distract People On The High Way -- Arrested Traffic Robber Confesses

A traffic robbery suspect arrested over the weekend by the operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command has explained how his gang disposed motorists on Lekki-Ajah Expressway of their valuables whenever there was traffic. ..


The suspect, Biodun Omoyeni, 22, from Ibadan, Oyo State, explained that, what his two - man traffic robbery gang do was to distract the driver that the tyre is flat, while another member of the gang would pick up valuables from the other side of the driver’s seat.

Omoyeni explained that through this method, his gang had stolen more than 19 phones and 3 laptops in four robbery operations in Lekki-Ajah traffic. He was arrested by the operatives of the RRS, who disguised as passers-by when they were hinted by motorists on the activities of his gang in Lekki-Ajah Expressway traffic.

Omoyeni noted that his partner and gang leader, Rasaq, 24, still at large, trained him and four other boys on how to steal mobile phones and valuables in traffic and on motorbikes in Mushin. He added "Rasaq is a meat seller at Sabo, Ikorodu. He is homeless and we have been to four operations together. We stole up to 19 phones in those operations. We always operate in Ajah... We meet in Mushin and Ojuelegba whenever we want to operate before heading to Lekki and Ajah for our operations.

We conduct for commercial buses and we use that to monitor traffic till 7:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. when it has built up before we start operating... Once there is traffic, we strategize and we start operating. One of us from the driver side tells the motorist that the tyre is punctured while the other person through the window takes the phones, money, wallets, pad and other valuables from the other side of the driver”.

The suspect, with several scars and stitches on his face said, “the wound in my face are as a result of street fighting. I was rejected in 4 hospitals 2 years ago before I was admitted in UCH, Ibadan, where the wounds were stitched." He also insisted that "I am not an armed robber. It was Rasaq that introduced me to all this. It is all because we are normally together all the time. I was a tyre seller in Ibadan before I decided to follow a friend to Lagos on a greener pasture.”